We first met Jesse Joyner at the recent IJA Joggling Championships. He finished second in the 5K and medaled in a bunch of other races. He is a professional juggler and agreed to an interview with JYAJ.
Joggling Introduction:
Jesse Joyner is a 27 year old living in Richmond, Virginia with his wife Sarah (five years married [...]
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While joggling the rainy Chicago Half marathon I got to thinking about lightning. Would they cancel the race if it started to thunder & lightning? Maybe, but I’ve never been in a race where that’s happened so who knows.
Thoughts while running
But while you run over 13 miles (and your headphones aren’t working) you start to [...]
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While sorting through some old work papers, I found a Personal Fitness Profile. It had all the measurements from my fitness health profiles from 2003-2008.
My fitness scores in the various areas are interesting to me but what would probably be more interesting to you are the areas identified as key to fitness health and the [...]
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While reading the excellent Half-Fast running blog, I noticed that Vanilla was going to try the FIRST marathon training program. This is a program in which you get to “run less often and still get faster”. It’s the 3-day a week marathon training program. Great concept.
I decided to give it a go this year to [...]
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In 15 minutes, I’ll be venturing out on my last 20-mile joggling run before the Chicago Marathon. I thought it would be interesting to do a before and after look at certain body/mind statistics.
Before running 20 miles
Weight = 190.8 lbs
Beer Belly waist = 36.5 in
Heart rate = 72 bpm
Temperature = 97.1 F
Pains: No obvious soreness.
When [...]
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Here’s another in our joggling skills series.
The way to get good at joggling is to reduce your frequency of dropping. If you practice juggling with your eyes closed, you’ll learn not to drop. And drop free joggling is fast joggling.
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Last weekend was the Chicago Half marathon. It’s a great race which is scheduled perfectly for the Chicago Marathon which happens one month later. If you’ve never been to a big race expo, here are a few things you can expect to see, and a couple of tips to make the experience more enjoyable.
How to [...]
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As an urban joggler, you always have to be concerned about cars, trucks, pedestrians and sometimes dogs. In some parts of the US you have to be careful of deer too.
But if you were joggling in Australia, you can add marsupials to your list of worries. According to this report a runner in his 50’s [...]
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In a follow-up to a previous story, Michal reports that neither he nor Simon (the Eco Joggler) were able to break the world record of 16:55 for a joggling 5K. They made their attempt on Friday, August 29, 2008 at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Centre.
Simon won the race with a time of 17:04. [...]
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When you joggle as often as me, you are always looking for new ideas on what to do right after you’re done with a training run or a race to keep your legs feeling fresh & injury free. Heck, it would be nice just to prevent soreness. Here is a good routine suggested [...]
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